Abortion Doc's Funeral Draws Hundreds

And in some case he was aborting fetuses, which had only half of its brain, or worse. It would appear this would be in the interest of both mother and child, and nonetheless a very difficult decision. The fact that people (Religious Right) believe this to murder to be God's work is simply delusional and illustrates certain Christian ideology that, in my opinion, is fanatical and akin to a mental disease! Reply

I'm glad to have that first question posed here because it leads to so many important issues and facts, several of which have been raised very succinctly and articulately as usual by resident scholar, Dr. Z. My mother was a devout Christian who confronted these issues in discussions I overheard nearly 50 years ago when she discussed the unwanted pregnancy of a neighbor and friend who confided that she was considering abortion (obviously it must have been illegal at that time in Colorado.) "I asked her why not just wait to have it and then kill it?" Mom reported to my Dad in an unguarded moment when when she thought no kids were around. "She cried and asked me what's the difference between an abortion and a miscarriage-- and I had to admit that there was no funeral when I had my own miscarriages, and there may have been others that only God knew about. I apologized and we prayed together about it and whatever she does I guess it will be the right thing for their family." (I recall that the neighbor had the child and saw her marriage end in divorce within the next few years.) It is a fact that 20-50% of pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion (miscarriage.) Many of the rabid "right-to-life" activists oppose contraception of any kind. That makes them aiders and abettors in their so-called holocaust, as I see it. And if we accept their views as valid, isn't their god the greatest baby killer of all? Reply

for rape and unprotected sex there are orphanages/adoption it's unfair for the sin to be put on the baby. to say the baby is better off dead is almost cowardly in facing the crime that has been done. Reply

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Firstly R.I.P. Dr Tiller and my prayers for his grieving family. It is awful to lose a loved one through an act of violence. We all began as a tiny collection of cells in a womb Weren't we lucky we were born before people began talking about viability and abortion became legal? If abortion had been endorsed by Law in earlier times we might never have had Beethoven or many of our greatest achievers come into existence including Lincoln. Reply